Debra Thatcher:  

Life My Bio . . . not a real page-turner, but. . . . After graduating from BCHS, I packed up my '64 Mustang and relocated to the incredible city of Seattle. Fours year later, with diploma in hand, (a Bachelors degree in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology from the Univ of Washington), I took time off and traveled to Europe and the Middle East. It was an incredible trip. I immersed myself into the life and culture of the Egypitan people and marveled at the architecture of Venice, Milan, Istanbul and Morocco. Having fullfilled one of my life's dreams, I returned to Seattle. Fifth year studies, my job, and student loans were calling. Graduating with a degree in Anthroplogy/Archaeology, one would think I'd be working in a museum or diggin' up arifacts at an archaeological site? Nope, not me. I started working full-time for a company in Seattle while I was a Senior at the U. I worked full-time (while going to school full-time) through my fifth year of graduate studies. Nearly 29 years later, I'm still with the same company! I've progressively moved up the ladder and am now an Applications Support Specialist/Trainer for our on-line systems. Quite an undertaking for someone who vowed never to become involved in the world of computers! The system development process helps to quench my thirst for knowledge & the training process keeps me involved with the "real people". People fascinate me. Being able to share my knowledge and learn from them in return is my idea of an ideal position. In 1996, I married, at the ripe old age of 42, a guy with two kids. We met through a personal ad I placed in the local newspaper. It took me 2 hours to compose and six months to get up the nerve to actually place it in the paper. Steve's a software engineer with an electrical engineering background. Not really a computer geek, but often speaks a language completly foreign to me. Things were great up until the summer of 2002 when the high tech industry in the Pacif...Expand for more